Taxing Bachelors
[Communicated.] Is Mr Bruce merely taking an opportunity for himself and other members, to air their wit at the national expense, and also to cumber the space in Hansard with a lot of rubbish, or does he think that forcing on a number of improvident marriages will be conducive to the health or wealth of the community? That sarcastic old senator Mr Mantell was credited with having coupled a decayed piece of wood with Hansard, and labelling them as a remarkablefspecimehs of dry rot, and as many a jest points a truth, Mr Brace's notions are likely to exemplify that it is so in this case. The times are too serious fnr silly trifling, and I trust that the Premier's answer will be limited to a simple but emphatic " No."
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 139, 23 June 1888, Page 2
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132Taxing Bachelors Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 139, 23 June 1888, Page 2
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